If
you still held on to yours, thanks to the XDA Developers, you can now update it
to Google Android 4.4.2 KitKat to allow you dated Tablet to support immersive
apps, wireless printing and cloud storage.

They've
decided to some of their money into adding some 34 MW of Power to a Wind Farm
in Mexico as reported in the article “Why
GM Wants To Buy Wind Energy”, published 3/24/2015 by Heather Clancy, Forbes.

Their
press Release on their GM Blog entitled “Wind
Power to Debut on GM’s Renewable Energy Roster” give a lot more details on
their plans for Renewable Energy usage by the year 2020. GM entered into a Power purchase agreement with Enel Green Power, with is the
Renewable energy part of the Enel Group,
are the contractors responsible for the construction and maintenance of the
Palo Alto, Mexico.

The
site has great wind and most likely cheap Mexican labour along with Tax breaks,
according to GM Global Manager of Renewable
Energy Rob Threlkeld, quote: “Mexico is an ideal location for our first wind
project. Energy is fed to a national grid, making it easier to reduce or add
energy capacity at a facility. There’s also a good business case as prices for
traditional power are about a third greater than the United States”.

GM and Enel Green Power
34 MW Wind Turbine Plant – How Large Companies are benefitting from Alternative
Energy

Well,
on Thursday March 26th 2015 Intel, Micro and Toshiba have decided to
turn it up thirty two (32) to forty eight (48) notches and make 10TB hard-drive
the size of a regular thumb drive a mainstream reality for laptops, Tablets and
the next generation of Storage Devices as stated in the article “Storage
that's both fast and roomy? It's on the way”, published March 26, 2015 9:31
AM PDT by Stephen Shankland, CNET News.

These
Ivy Bridge Processors have a 3D architecture on the chip substrate with so
called Tri-Gate Transistors that enable layers upon layers of transistors to be
built. The other end of the 3D V-NAND revolution is being powered by Toshiba,
who on Thursday March 26th 2015 will also be delivering their first
samples to PC and Laptop makers.

So
how does Intel's 22nm Ivy Bridge Processors with 3D architecture, commercially called
V-NAND (Vertical Not AND), help to boost Moore’s Law?

Intel and Micron make
V-NAND SSD – 10TD Harddrives on a 2.5 inch Processor to compete against Samsung

With
this new 22nm process that has 3D Transistor design added in, it’s possible to
stack Transistor on top of each other, making the same area of substrate onto
the silicon hold more transistors and thus allowing Intel-Micron to double the amount
of bits that can be stored.

Let’s
assume that you can fit one tri-gate V-NAND (Vertical Not AND) Transistor into
a single cell on a single layer and each cell represents one (1) NAND
Transistor on that capable of storing one (1) bit of data.

Using
the Intel-Micron approach, it becomes possible to stack two (2) bits in each
cell vertically if you have two (2) layers. This results in Processors and
SSD's that can store a total of 256 GB and if upped to three (3) bits per vertical
cell, up to 384GB.

In
practical terms, that’ll 10 terabytes (10TB) for a SSD with more than thirty two
(32) layers and 2.5-inch of surface area. Now that’ll awesome! Best of all,
Moore’s Law can continue on ad infinitum
by merely adding more layers.

Intel-Micron
partnership can create as many as thirty two (32) layers of 3D V-NAND Flash,
matching Samsung’s efforts thus far. Toshiba, who are also competing with
Intel-Micron and Samsung for the same V-NAND based SSD market, are pushing the
envelope with 3D based NAND Flash that has up to some forty eight (48) layers
of 3D V-NAND Flash.

Also
Samsung's technology uses the charge-trap approach whereas the Intel-Micron partnership
uses the Floating Gate approach, an older technology that should result in
lower prices and thus a competitive advantage again Samsung.

Computer
manufacturers can expect to start using this improved 3D V-NAND flash Processors
and Memory by the end of 2015 in everything from improved Laptop, smartphone
and Tablet hard-drives to MP4 players for HD Audio.

Sunday, March 29, 2015

“Up
to now, salt has been regarded as a detrimental dietary factor. Our current
study challenges this one-sided view and suggests that increasing salt
accumulation at the site of infections might be an ancient strategy to ward off
infections, long before antibiotics were invented”

Dr. Jonathan Jantsch, a
microbiologist at Universitätsklinikum Regensburg and Universität Regensburg
commenting on his research that suggests that Salt helps the body fight
infection

That
Harvard University Study was really focused on the use of preservatives and MSG
(Monosodium Glucomate) that can in the little sachet in these dehydrated
packets of Noodles. I personally know of salt being used as a preservative for some
foods, including salted fish and salted pork.

Sodium
chloride is a listed ingredient for Ramen soups also so they're not off the hook
totally and neither am I, as I eat them regularly while studying and doing homework
for my Diploma in Professional Studies in Teaching at the MICO University College in the evenings.

So
does this latest study means you can stock on all the noodles you can eat? Not
really.

Salt and Healing –
Bacteriophages get a boost from High Salt concentration in their diet

First
thing to get out of the way is that this does not mean salt is safe, neither does
it invalidate years o previous research stating the link between dietary salt
or Sodium Chloride (NaCl) and hypertension as noted in the article “Salty
foods could protect against microbes” Published Wednesday, March 4, 2015, 6:33 PM, The NY Daily News.

Dr.
Jonathan Jantsch was at pains to make this quite clear, quote: “Due to the
overwhelming clinical studies demonstrating that high dietary salt is
detrimental to hypertension and cardiovascular diseases, we feel that at
present our data does not justify recommendations on high dietary salt in the
general population”.

Rather,
it points to a previously unknown role played by salt in the body defending
itself against infections, being as it appears to accumulate under the skin
near the site of infections and cuts made by other mice and parasites, quote: “A
further understanding of the regulatory cascades might not only help to design
drugs that specifically enhance local salt deposition and help to combat
infectious diseases, but also may lead to novel strategies to mobilize sodium
stores in the aging population and prevent cardiovascular disease”.

Dr.
Jonathan Jantsch team decided to do their paper on Salt after senior author,
Dr. Jens Titze, a clinical pharmacologist at the Vanderbilt University School
of Medicine in Nashville as reported in the article “Does
high-salt diet combat infections?”, published 3 March 2015 1:00 pm By Kate
Wheeling, Science Magazine happened
to notice that mice bitten by members of the group, had a large accumulates of Salt around the side of their
cuts.

Most
likely too, Dr. Jonathan Jantsch team and his team may have possibly looked
into the mice getting a bigger wheel and a Flat screen TV with an Xbox so as to
reduce their tendency to fight.

After
realizing that a flat screen TV or getting a bigger wheel to fir into their
tiny cages was not in the budget, they decided to make the mice pay for
fighting amongst themselves.

Instead
of investigating the reason why they were fighting amongst themselves, Dr.
Jonathan Jantsch decided to focus his team to unravel this mystery to determine
how Sodium Chloride (NaCl) may be aiding the infection-fighting functions of
the immune system.

Then
they increased the sodium chloride in the nutrient bath in which the
macrophages were growing to levels equivalent to those seen in the cuts of the mice
that were fighting infections.

They
discovered that the macrophages produced higher concentrations of reactive
oxygen species, indicating that what may be happening in the mice's body was
the immune system carrying Salt to help the macrophages fight of the infection.

This
is somewhat like soldiers in the field of battle carrying extra cannonballs for
the artillerymen to shoot at the enemy behind a blockade also made of
cannonballs, which are the alt molecules. Or villages in a village carrying extra
sandbags to the edge of a river in spate to prevent it from overflowing its
banks and flooding the town!

Then,
in the name of science, they decided to test out this macrophage theory.

They
deliberately infected the nutrient bath that the bacteriophages were in with
Escherichia coli and Leishmania
major. To their astonishment, the macrophage cultures that had been fed
with higher levels of sodium chloride showed a stronger response in fighting
the infection, with infection being more quickly removed after twenty four (24)
hours, whether it is Escherichia coli and Leishmania major.

Now,
it was time for testing on the live mice to see how their actual Immune Systems
would stand up to an infection, with and without hello from a high salt diet.

The
researchers from the University
of Regensburg in Germany fed the two (2) different groups of mice on a two
(2) week diet. One group had a high-salt diet and the other had a low-salt
diet.

At
first, there were no significant difference between the two (2) groups of mice
and how their bodies fought the infections for the first twenty (20) days. But
after twenty (20) days, the mice with the high-salt diet showed improved
healing with fewer foot lesions and a lower level of parasitic infections around
those foot lesions than those mice that had a low-salt diet.

Salt is good for your
Cuts - Add Salt to your alcohol tinctures before soak bandages and applying to
cuts

The
results were clear; salt is good for healing your bunions to quote Dr. Jonathan
Jantsch: “[The experiments] demonstrate that extremes of salt intake result in
additional salt accumulation in infected skin and boost immune defense
experimentally”.

Dr.
Jonathan Jantsch team speculates that certain cells in the Immune System may be
stockpiling salt around the site where bacterial populations are high in much
the same way people on the side of a river in spate about to overflow it banks will
pile up sandbags to keep the levees from bursting and the rivers from flooding
their town.

No
humans were experimented on to prove that this worked on humans as well. But
the research group, using MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) to measure Sodium in
their skin, also noticed the same accumulation of salt around the wounds of
people with cuts of bacterial infections that caused skin lesions.

So
the practical takeaway from this research?

When
making dressings for your wounds, using alcohol, dissolve some salt into the
mixture; the alcohol will kill infection with the salt helping to prevent the
bacterial infection going deeper into your body. No salt consumption needed and
hypertension risk avoided!

We're
also still susceptible to other infections, like Swine flu or H1N1, a strain of
the Influenza Virus thanks to the fact that man Jamaican STILL do not eat a
diet rich in fruits and vegetables that contain Vitamin C (C6H8O6)
as noted in the article “Vitamin
C Kills Viruses”, published Tuesday October 21, 2014 by Dr Tony Vendryes, The Jamaica Gleaner.

Vitamin C (C6H8O6)
is not only effective against the Chikungunya Virus; in high enough
concentrations, it has been shown to have activity against the following Viral
and Bacterial diseases:

This
substance proved to be a Reducing agent, which is we now know as ascorbic acid.
Interesting coincidence as most acids ARE reducing agents i.e. they lose
electrons during a chemical reaction, thereby becoming oxidized and more stable
in terms of their electron configuration and energy levels.

Not
sure what he'd bumped into, he just called it “ignose”. Subsequent research
resulted in him being awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in
1937.

So
how does Vitamin C (C6H8O6)
help in the fight against Chikungunya Virus and other viral diseases?

Directly,
the molecules of Vitamin C (C6H8O6)
react with the outer protein shell that constitute most viruses, reducing them
via reaction and thus cause them to break apart, once the dosage of Vitamin C (C6H8O6)
is sufficiently high.

Because
of the viral nature of many illnesses from the common cold to Influenza, Vitamin C (C6H8O6)
can reduce the symptoms associated with Viruses due to this direct attack of
the Viruses at the Nanoscopic level:

This
as the White Blood Cells in the body's Immune System, and specifically the
T-Cells, use up Vitamin
C (C6H8O6) in large amounts during
a viral infection to produce an antioxidant called Glutathione (C10H17N3O6S).

This
anti-oxidant (literally meaning reducing agent!) is used directly in the fight
against viruses.

What
Glutathione (C10H17N3O6S)
does is reduce the formation of disulfide within cytoplasmic proteins by acting
as a reducing agent and donating electrons to those elements attacking the
cellular walls of the body's tissues, oxidizing them to a more stable form. In
the process, Glutathione (C10H17N3O6S)
is oxidized to glutathione
disulfide (GSSG).

The
fact that Dr. James Lind, the British naval surgeon, was able to save many
British Navy officers from death via the introduction of fruits does not mean
you can get your full Vitamin
C (C6H8O6) requirements from fruits alone.

The
reason why the British Navy delayed from almost forty (40) years to include
Fruits was because many in their Naval Command thought that giving fruits to
sailors would not make them hardened enough for battle.

Many
in the British Navy were conscripted officers and POW (Prisoners of War) or
boys coming from poor homes. With Fruits being seen as a luxury item, it seemed
to the British Navy Top Brass a breach of class values and attitudes of Britain
at the time, not to mention a waste of Cargo space that could otherwise store ammunition
and weapons.

Delaying
action for some forty (40) years resulted in the death of some 100,000 British
Naval officers, many of whom could have been saved had the British Navy acted
more quickly on the advice of Dr. James Lind.

Taking
Vitamin C (C6H8O6)
supplements is also recommended when fighting the Chikungunya Virus, if you
have deep pockets and can shell out the money needed to buy a large bottle of Vitamin C (C6H8O6)
for your family. This as one of the treatments that many Jamaican will get at
the hospital involves the use of intravenous Vitamin C (C6H8O6).

So
if you had been preciously infected by the Chikungunya Virus or you’re currently
suffering from its effects of you're experiencing a bout of influenza, stocking
up on Vitamin C (C6H8O6)
is not a bad idea.